New Delhi, Jan. 28: The chairman of the National Council for Teacher Education, a statutory body monitoring teachers’ education in the country, has been found guilty of corruption by a vigilance inquiry, sources said.

M.A. Siddiqui is likely to be issued a chargesheet within a week. A professor from Jamia Millia Islamia University on deputation to NCTE since 2008, Siddiqui is also likely to be repatriated to the university after it wrote to the human resource development ministry asking for him to be sent back.

Siddiqui is accused of permitting the Noida-based Innovative Institute of Education and Technology to continue its BEd course despite an adverse report from an expert committee. He manipulated records to grant the permission although the institute did not meet the standards required, the vigilance inquiry found.

The inquiry also indicted him for not informing the HRD ministry selection committee at the time of his appointment that he was facing a criminal case.

NCTE approval is mandatory for any institute to start the BEd course and, for institutes already offering it, to continue the course.

Siddiqui is the second head of a regulatory body in education to face corruption charges after AICTE chairman R.A. Yadav. A CBI probe had indicted Yadav of complicity with subordinates who asked for Rs 15 lakh bribe from an engineering college.